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Russian scientists are evacuating a research station built on an Arctic ice floe because global warming has melted the ice to a fraction of its original size, a spokesman said.

Aha, now we know why Microsoft added all that extra hard disk space: for Netflix video streaming. Not really, though, since it's streaming video it likely isn't going to take all that additional hard drive space.

However, the Xbox 360 is getting access to Netflix, coming in "late fall." Yes, you're going to have to wait until then for the necessary update to turn your Xbox 360 into the equivalent of a Roku box.

On Monday Apple announced that one million iPhone 3Gs had been sold in the first weekend of sales. Additionally, Apple indicated that over ten million downloads App Store downloads had occurred in the same timeframe.

Late Saturday night Yahoo! rejected yet another takeover offer from Microsoft, this one similar to one Microsoft made earlier, in which Microsoft would acquire Yahoo!'s search business. In addition, however, Carl Icahn would have taken over the remaining parts of the company.

Google's self imposed code of conduct is "Don't be evil." It doesn't say "don't be evil unless there's important litigation at stake." Google's reputation is on the line, and how they respond will show their true character. They've shown they'll go to bat for employees, now it's time for them to show they'll go to bat for their users.

Like birds of a feather bikers in a peloton stick together. The formation used by competitive bikers, especially in the Tour De France, has to do with energy conservation and courtesy.

A group of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen have developed models of neural networks that make it possible to simulate how the body protects itself from disease and predict the immune system’s access codes.

You may have heard the news that Louisiana's governor recently signed an "Academic Freedom" bill, the first such bill to pass in a recent string of efforts to allow public school teachers to push non-scientific alternatives to evolution.

In one of those odd uses of statistics, higher gasoline prices have been associated with fewer deaths from car accidents, says a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Researchers are hoping to ease the burden of the 30 pounds of batteries troops carry while out on typical missions by developing rechargeable power sources.

Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that.

Does anyone remember the issues with the first-generation iPhone screens, where some of them, with a different LCD Panel ID number, were noticeably dimmer? Seems like we have a repeat here.

Marijuana-like substances made by the skin are necessary for a healthy complexion, a new study concludes.

I commented on this earlier - I was concerned that the in-store activation would take a long time, or worse, totally fail. Looking at how complex it was going to be, it seemed obvious. And now real-life experiences show I was right.

Rambus on Thursday said it had filed a lawsuit against Nvidia , alleging the graphics chip vendor had infringed on memory architecture patents owned by Rambus.

Perhaps Johnny Nash should be singing, "I can see energy now." Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that turns windows into a solar collector, letting people see ...

Talk about cannibalizing sales from Windows Vista. It's bad enough Microsoft has to worry about XP doing that, but ...

All right, all right, obviously I'm just kidding. And yes, you read that right. Windows for Workgroups (WFW) 3.11 is still being sold. Microsoft is selling it in the Embedded Channel.

New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday

The one-armed robot glides slowly to the kitchen table. With its three fingers, it carefully picks up the bottle of apple juice and puts it next to the glasses on the tray in front of it.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released images on Wednesday depicting offshore wind energy potential around the world.